Miniature Dual Band Button Antenna Using Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna for On/Off Body Communication Devices

Authors

  • Mohammed K. Banafaa Department of Communication Engineering Universiti Teknologi Malaysia UTM, Johor Bahru, 81310, Malaysia
  • Mohmed H. Jamaluddin Department of Communication Engineering Universiti Teknologi Malaysia UTM, Johor Bahru, 81310, Malaysia
  • Samsul H. Dahlan 2 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Universiti Tun Hussein Malaysia, Batu Pahat, Johor 86400, Malaysia
  • Ayman A. Althuwayb Department of Communication Engineering Universiti Teknologi Malaysia UTM, Johor Bahru, 81310, Malaysia

Keywords:

Button antenna, dual-band dielectric resonator antenna, on/off body communications, wearable antenna, wireless body area network (WBAN)

Abstract

This paper presents miniature dual-band cylindrical dielectric resonator antenna (CDRA) based on button antenna for wireless body area network (WBAN) applications. A button antenna is designed by stacking two CDRAs (low and high permittivity) fed by coaxial probe through the ground plane and penetrates the bottom CDRA. The prime contributions of using DRAs are to enhance the performance and to provide a compact size of antenna. However, the coaxial probe realizes two radiation patterns, monopole and broadside patterns. A comprehensive validation using CST microwave studio is carried out to determine the characteristics of the proposed button antenna. In addition, to ensure that the results are acceptable to the practitioner in this field, a prototype was fabricated and tested. The superiority of the proposed antenna is confirmed by possessing 39% more compact size compared to previously reported studies, efficiency of more than 63% and bandwidth of 4.9% and 6.6% for lower and upper band, respectively. This proposed design is a promising candidate to benefit on/off body communication devices operating at 2.4 and 5.6 GHz.

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Author Biographies

Mohammed K. Banafaa, Department of Communication Engineering Universiti Teknologi Malaysia UTM, Johor Bahru, 81310, Malaysia

Mohammed Banafaa was born in Yemen. In 2017, he received B.Eng. (Hons.) in Electronic and Communication from University of Aden. in 2019, he received M.Eng. (Hons.) in Telecom from Universiti Technologi Malaysia. He is a member of IEEE. His research interests include dielectric resonator antenna, wireless propagation, wireless communication, 5G technology and Mobile edge computing (MEC). He currently works as Telecom Engineer at Etisalat Telecommunication company in UAE since June 2020.

Mohmed H. Jamaluddin, Department of Communication Engineering Universiti Teknologi Malaysia UTM, Johor Bahru, 81310, Malaysia

Mohd Haizal Jamaluddin received the bachelor's and master's degrees in Electrical Engineering from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia, in 2003 and 2006, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Signal Processing and Telecommunications from the Université de Rennes 1, France, in 2009, with a focus on microwave communication systems and specific antennas such as dielectric resonator and reflect array and dielectric dome antennas. He joined the Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, as a Tutor in 2003. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Wireless Communication Centre, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). He was a Senior Lecturer at Wireless Communication Centre (WCC), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) until December 2017. He has published more than 100 ISI/Scopus papers in reputed indexed journals and more than 60 conference proceedings.

Samsul H. Dahlan, 2 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Universiti Tun Hussein Malaysia, Batu Pahat, Johor 86400, Malaysia

Samsul Haimi DAHLAN received the degree in Electrical Engineering from the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in 1999, Masters degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 2005, and the Ph.D degree in Signal Processing and Telecommunications from the Universite de Rennes I, France in 2012. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, and holds the position as the head of Research Center for Applied Electromagnetic (EMCENTER) since 2015. He is one of the ALUMNI for the Leaders in Innovation Fellowship program with the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK and holds several intellectual property rights on several innovative products. He has authored and co-authored more than 30 ISI/Scopus journals and over 30 conference papers. His research interests include optical microwave generator, focusing system (dielectric lens and transmit array’s synthesis), advance antenna design, material characterization techniques, and computational electromagnetic.

Ayman A. Althuwayb, Department of Communication Engineering Universiti Teknologi Malaysia UTM, Johor Bahru, 81310, Malaysia

Ayman Althuwayb received the B.Sc. degree (Hons.) in Electrical Engineering (Electronics and Communications) from Jouf University, Saudi Arabia, in 2011, the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from California State University, Fullerton, CA, USA, in 2015, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from 484 ACES JOURNAL, Vol. 36, No. 4, April 2021 Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA, in 2018. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Jouf University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. His current research interests include antenna design and propagation, microwaves and millimeter-waves, wireless power transfer, ultrawideband and multiband antennas, filters and others.

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Published

2021-04-08

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Mohammed K. Banafaa, Mohmed H. Jamaluddin, Samsul H. Dahlan, and Ayman A. Althuwayb, “Miniature Dual Band Button Antenna Using Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna for On/Off Body Communication Devices”, ACES Journal, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 479–485, Apr. 2021.

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2021: Vol 36 Iss 4

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